'Toast' -- 2 1/2 stars

NR; 1:36 running time Like the lemon meringue pies and shrimp cocktails it features throughout, the British comedy-drama "Toast" is tasty, hearty and rather conventional. Directed by TV director SJ Clarkson ("House," "Heroes"), this '60s-set, made-for-TV film charts a boy's coming of age -- and coming out -- through a culinary sentimental education, and features a deliciously comic turn from Helena Bonham Carter as a semi-evil stepmother. Read the full "Toast" review

NR; 1:36 running time Like the lemon meringue pies and shrimp cocktails it features throughout, the British comedy-drama "Toast" is tasty, hearty and rather conventional. Directed by TV director SJ Clarkson ("House," "Heroes"), this '60s-set, made-for-TV film charts a boy's coming of age -- and coming out -- through a culinary sentimental education, and features a deliciously comic turn from Helena Bonham Carter as a semi-evil stepmother. Read the full "Toast" review

NR; 1:36 running time Like the lemon meringue pies and shrimp cocktails it features throughout, the British comedy-drama "Toast" is tasty, hearty and rather conventional. Directed by TV director SJ Clarkson ("House," "Heroes"), this '60s-set, made-for-TV film charts a boy's coming of age -- and coming out -- through a culinary sentimental education, and features a deliciously comic turn from Helena Bonham Carter as a semi-evil stepmother. Read the full "Toast" review